New Delhi, July 31: A day after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the two-child norm, a Muslim organisation today termed the observation as "unreasonable" and demanded a constitutional amendment to declare the right to contest election as a fundamental right.
"The Supreme Court has observed that the right to contest is not a fundamental right. But democracy is a basic structure of the Constitution and there can be no democracy without election and there can be no election without contest," all India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat president Syed Shahabuddin said in a statement.
He said, "The judgement of the Supreme Court raises many political, social, moral and ethical equations without in any way solving the population problem."
Stating that population could be controlled by educational and socio-economic development, he demanded a constitutional amendment to incorporate the right to vote and the right to contest as fundamental rights.
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